Re: Should get_maintainer.pl ignore obsolete Qualcomm domains?

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 12/11/2026 11:10, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 10/11/2026 19:50, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>> Qualcomm employees have contributed to the Linux kernel from a variety of
>> domains. Current guidance is to use some form of *.qualcomm.com, with
>> oss.qualcomm.com being preferred. But prior guidance was to use codeaurora.org
>> (up until December 2021) and quicinc.com (up until March 2025).
>>
>> The current issue I see is that get_maintainer.pl can return codeaurora.org or
>> quicinc.com addresses in some cases (i.e. via --git-blame-signatures), and
>> codeaurora.org no longer accepts e-mails and quicinc.com cannot be accessed by
>> the engineers. And there are also cases where employees have left, and have
>> not established a new .mailmap entry.
>>
>> So I'm wondering if there should be a mechanism in get_maintainer.pl to avoid
>> reporting dead domains. Or should we just enter all of the obsolete addresses
>> to .get_maintainer.ignore.
> 
> --git-fallback takes addresses from the last year I think, so I believe
> no codeaurora or quicinc woould appear thus .get_maintainer.ignore is
> not a solution here. Addresses are printed (at least quicinc) because
> they are listed as maintainers, e.g. for bindings or drivers (two cases
> for maintainers). Obviously such bindings and drivers are abandoned,
> which is a good thing to learn from the bounce.
> 

I think I missed partially your point - you do not refer to
--git-fallback, but blame for fixes. Well, yes, for that I would just
drop entire @codeaurora domain. quicinc.com is still working so for me
it is litmus test if maintainer is active.

Best regards,
Krzysztof